Teachers & Academics
- John Anderson (Educationalist)
- John Begg (Architect)
- Eric Temple Bell (Mathematician)
- Joseph Bell (Deductive Medicine)
- Joseph Black (Chemist)
- Hector Boece (Historian)
- Alexander Crum Brown (Molecules)
- George Buchanan (Scholar)
- J. Norman Collie (Mountaineer)
- William Cullen (Hamilton)
- James Dewar (Physicist)
- John Duns Scotus (Theologian)
- Isabella Elder (Philanthropist)
- Bishop William Elphinstone
- Mary Erskine (Financier)
- James Alfred Ewing (Physicist)
- James David Forbes (Physicist)
- Adam Ferguson (Philosopher)
- Sir Archibald Geikie (Geologist)
- Sir Patrick Geddes (Town Planner)
- Thomas Graham (Graham's Law)
- Robert Gordon (Aberdeen)
- Sir William Hamilton (Philosopher)
- Alexander Henderson (Theologian)
- Thomas Henderson (Astronomer)
- George Heriot (Philanthropist)
- James Ivory (Mathematician)
- Edward Irving (Preacher)
- Dorothy Johnstone (Artist)
- George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal
- Christina Kay (Teacher)
- Robert Knox (Anatomist)
- Sir JohnLeslie (Physicist)
- Johann von Lamont (Astronomer)
- Robert Liston (Surgeon)
- Dame LouiseMcIlroy (Doctor)
- Agnes Mackenzie (Historian)
- Sorley MacLean (Poet)
- John Mair (Philosopher)
- Alexander Monro, I (Anatomist)
- James Murdoch (Japan)
- James Clerk Maxwell (Physicist)
- John Playfair (Mathematician)
- Alan Reiach (Architect)
- Bishop Robert Reid (Orkney)
- Marion Ross (Physicist)
- Thomas Reid (Philosopher)
- Alastair Sim (Actor)
- Adam Smith (Economist)
- Flora Sadler (Astronomer)
- Dugald Stewart (Philosopher)
- Catherine Helen Spence (Australia)
- Peter Guthrie Tait (Physicist)
- Andrew Ure (Doctor)
- John Walker (Scientist)
- George Watson (Banker)
- Walter Wingate (Children's Poet)
- James Young (Oil Shale)
- Sir James Young Simpson (Doctor)